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Speaker and Authority in Old Norse Wisdom Poetry /

While there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offer...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schorn, Brittany Erin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Trends in medieval philology ; 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Introduction: a Word to the Wise
  • 2. Gáttir allar, áðr gangi fram, um scoðask scyli: Approaching Wisdom in Eddic Poetry
  • 3. Mankind and the Supernatural World in Eddic Wisdom Verse
  • 4. Speaker and Situation in the Mythological Frames of Wisdom Poetry
  • 5. Traditional Forms and Christian Authority
  • 6. The Authority of Wisdom
  • 7. Abbreviations
  • 8. Bibliography
  • 9. Index.